Light wear to cover corners, interior clean and intact, small remainder mark across bottom spine end. Winner Best Book, 1999 Commonweath Writers Prize. ; ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property of eucalyptus trees and his ravishingly beautiful daughter, Ellen. When Ellen turns nineteen Holland makes an announcement: she may marry only the man who can correctly name the species of each of the hundreds of gum trees on his property. Ellen is uninterested in the many suitors who arrive from around the world, until one afternoon she chances on a strange, handsome young man resting under a Coolibah tree..... (290noto)